Mayor Dave Bing speaks to news reporters at a White Castle restaurant in Detroit's New Center as he toured the city cheering on the Angel's Night anti-arson effort Tuesday. Devil's Night in past years brought widespread, negative media attention to the city when hundreds of fires burned all over Detroit around Halloween.(Khalil AlHajal | MLive.com)

DETROIT, MI -- Mayor Dave Bing hopes the Angel's Night tradition is one the city can eventually afford to let go, he said this evening as he tours Detroit, cheering on the anti-arson effort.

Volunteers mobilize all over Detroit every Oct. 29, 30 and 31 in an effort to make Devil's Night a thing of the past in a city that once saw hundreds of arsons and other crimes on an annual basis during three-day Halloween period.